Once
again the Call for Papers has generated a strong response from the UK
photovoltaics community - some 60 abstracts have been received and a full and
varied programme is promised. Invited speakers who will present at PVSAT-6
include Wim Sinke, ECN, The Netherlands, Chris Wronski, Pennsylvania State
University, Ayodhya Tiwari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Thomas
Hofmann, Centrosolar Glas, Germany, Ray Noble, Renewable Energy Association,
Darren Bagnall, University of Southampton and Alan Turner, Solarbuzz.

PVSAT-6
will be held at the historic Chilworth Manor (www.chilworth-manor.co.uk)
in the grounds of the Southampton University Science Park.

Despite what you hear from every side, we don't need to use less energy. We need
to use less fuel. Traditional 'energy policy' fosters ways to use more fuel.
Real energy policy will foster ways to use less. Once we get that right, the
renewable fuel - biomass - will come into its own, as an essential component of
sustainable human energy systems.

Walt Patterson is Associate Fellow in the Energy,
Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House in London, UK, and a
Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. He is author of Keeping The Lights
On: Towards Sustainable Electricity (Chatham House/Earthscan 2007), his
thirteenth book, and hundreds of other publications, on nuclear power, coal
technology, renewable energy, energy systems, energy policy and electricity. His
current project for CH and the Sussex Energy Group is called 'Managing Energy:
for climate and security'. Walt Patterson On Energy, <www.waltpatterson.org>,
is an online archive of his writing since 1970.

The 2007 David Hall Memorial Lecture
"Renewable
energy - Yesterday’s alternative, Tomorrow’s mainstream" presented by
Philip Wolfe, Renewable Energy Association, at London South Bank University on 6 December 2007 can now be
downloaded as a Powerpoint file (3.3 Mb) here.

The 2006 David Hall Memorial Lecture
"Location, Generation and Sustainability" presented by John Thorp, UK-ISES
Chairperson, at London South Bank University on 7 December 2006 can now be
downloaded as a Powerpoint file (2.6Mb) here.